Last Updated: 2011-12-20

    • 2011

    • Richmond Ranked 3rd Best Place for Military Retirement & Second Careers: USAA.com, December 2011
    • Richmond Ranked 12th Best City for Business: The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch.com, December 2011
    • Richmond Wins Best Marketing Package, Excellence in Economic Development Award, International Economic Development Council (IEDC), October 2011
    • Richmond Ranked 7th Best City for Working Mothers, Forbes Magazine, October 2011
    • Richmond Named a Top Ten Best Place for Paddling Adventure, USA Today, September 2011
    • Richmond 15th Happiest City for Young Professionals, Forbes.com, September 2011
    • Richmond Awarded 2015 Road World Championship, The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), September 2011
    • Richmond Named 19th Most Fun and Affordable City: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, August 2011
    • Top Place to Live: Relocate.America.com, July 2011
    • Best Small City of the Future: Foreign Direct Investment (fDi) Magazine, March 2011.
    • 3rd Top Small Cities FDI Strategy: Foreign Direct Investment (fDi) Magazine, March 2011.
    • 5th Small Cities Business Friendliness: Foreign Direct Investment (fDi) Magazine, March 2011.
    • Ranked 4th in the 10 best cities for commuters: Kiplinger.com, March 2011.
    • Named the 6th best city to find a job: Ajilon Professional Staffing, March 2011.
    • Top Ten City to “live, work, and make movies”: MovieMaker Magazine, February 2011.

    2010

    • 6th Top City for IT Professionals to Live In: Microsoft Certified Professionals Magazine, December 2010.
    • 7th Best Metro Center for Business: Wall Street Journal’s Marketwatch.com, December 2010.
    • Ranked the 1st digital city with a population between 125,000 – 250,000: 2010 Digital Cities Survey: Center for Digital Government and Government Technology Magazine, December 2010.
    • 3rd Best Tennis Town in United States: United States Tennis Association, August, 2010.
    • Ranked 25th among Best Cities for New College Grads: Businessweek.com, July 2010.
    • Ranked 12th of America’s Top 50 U.S. cities for working mothers: Forbes.com, July 2010
    • America’s healthiest city and one of the best cities for families: Parenting.com, June 18, 2010.
    • One of the nation’s 50 best places for business and careers: Forbes.com, April 14, 2010.
    • 12th healthiest housing market in the nation for 2010: Builderonline.com, February 25, 2010.
    • 2nd Best Urban Park – James River Park System: Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine, January 2010.

    2009

    • The 14th best metro center for business: Dow Jones MarketWatch.com, December 2009.
    • The second-most charitable city in America, according to Men's Health magazine, December 2009.
    • Ranked 65th among the nation’s 100 Best Bang-For-The-Buck Cities: Forbes.com, November 2009.
    • 9th lowest among 50 cities for the cost of operating a corporate headquarters: Boyd Company, Inc., November 2009.
    • One of America’s 50 fastest-recovering cities: Forbes.com, November 2009.
    • One of the 20 best cities of its size for young professionals to live and work: Next Generation Consulting, June 2009.
    • 6th best place in nation to start over: Study by Manpower reported in BusinessWeek, June 2009.
    • One of the nation’s seven top cities for trail runners: Trail Runner Magazine, October 2009.
    • North America's 9th best small city and 4th best in foreign direct investment strategy in Foreign Direct Investment (fDi) Magazine's North American Cities of the Future 2009/10, April/May 2009.
    • Carytown named the South’s ninth best shopping neighborhood: Southern Living Magazine, December 2008.
    • The ninth best city for women in WomenCo.com, November 1, 2008.
    • One of the 10 best cities for commuters of the nation's 75 largest metro areas in Forbes.com, April 2008

    2008

    • Carytown named the South’s ninth best shopping neighborhood: Southern Living Magazine December 2008.
    • The ninth best city for women, in WomenCo.com, November 1, 2008.
    • One of the 10 best cities for commuters of the nation's 75 largest metro areas in Forbes.com, April 2008.

    2007

    • One of the nation's top 20 places to educate your child (rated #12): Forbes.com, December 12, 2007.
    • One of the nation's best large metros for public schools (rated #8): Expansion Management, December 2007.
    • An economic development "hot spot," rated fourth of the top 20 mid-sized metros: National Policy Research Council in Expansion Management, October 2007.

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